38mc01-AL-2019_Venaria Reale, Reggia, Carrozza landau au bateau, inv. PR 30217

Facilitated description:

 

The landau au bateau carriage is a type of four-wheeled carriage with an opening cover. 
The name of the carriage comes from a city in Germany where this type of carriage was invented. 
The carriage is black and was built in 1886 by the company Cesare Sala. 
The carriage is part of the collections of the Quirinal Palace. 
Today the carriage is exhibited in the stables of the Reggia di Venaria. 
The La Venaria Reale Conservation and Restoration Centre restored the carriage in 2018-2019. 
The restorers repaired the broken wooden parts.
They put on the wooden parts a product against insects that eat wood. 
They cleaned the wooden parts and painted the parts without color. 
They cleaned the metal parts and put a protective product. 
Eventually they cleaned the leather parts and softened them with water. 

 

 

 

 

Abstract of the intervention:

 

Restoration

The restoration of the carriage of the collections of the Palazzo del Quirinale and from the Museum of Military Motorization in Rome was carried out in view of the display of the carriage in the permanent visit path of the Reggia di Venaria.
The project included an intervention calibrated on each specific component. Structural restoration of the slits and a biocide treatment in the anoxic chamber were carried out at the level of the wooden parts.
On the decorated surface, instead, the Deadese scales were consolidated, chemical cleaning was carried out and watercolor color integration and painting were carried out.
The metal parts were cleaned, reintegrated, painted and treated with corrosion inhibitor.
Finally, textile parts were consolidated and leather parts rehydrated.